Scan. Vault.
Trade & Sell.
Built in Austin, Texas for every trading card collector — sports (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer) and TCG (Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, One Piece). Scan any card and our AI delivers a quality score, PSA grade estimate, and confidence-rated pricing straight into your vault. Your whole collection re-prices daily against live eBay sold + active comps, PriceCharting, COMC, and Rookie's own sale history. Then sell or trade — matched by Collector DNA. Built by brothers Connor and Logan Owens.
Built by Connor & Logan OwensTwo brothers. Lifelong collectors.
Just Listed
QB Refractor /15
$420 · Trade OK
Buy. Sell. Trade.
A live feed of cards listed by other Rookie collectors. Filter by sport, propose multi-card trades, and tap into Featured and For You rows tuned to your DNA.
Browse Marketplace →DNA MatchOur moat.
Every scan, search, view, and trade sharpens your Collector DNA. We pair every card with the buyer most likely to want it — and surface the listings most likely to match yours.
How DNA Works →Boxes & PricingBox Club.
Hand-curated monthly drops from Connor and Logan. Three tiers from $25 to $150. No fillers, no algorithm — just the parallels you actually chase.
See Box Tiers →AboutTwo brothers, one hobby.
Rookie is built by Connor (14) and Logan (11) Owens out of their family's garage. 10% of every box funds the JC7 Foundation supporting youth athletics.
Meet The Founders →No one gets ripped off.
Rookie is built so both sides of every deal — buyer and seller — can trade cards without worrying about who ships first, who pays first, or whether the card is real.
Pay with confidence.
Your money sits in Rookie escrow until the card arrives as described. If something's wrong, the funds stay put while we mediate — you never have to chase a stranger for a refund.
Ship with confidence.
Funds are captured and held before you package the card. Once delivery is confirmed, the payout releases automatically. No bounced checks, no chargeback surprises.
Know fair market before you buy.
Every listing shows a live fair-market range built from eBay sold + active comps, PriceCharting, COMC, and Rookie's own sale history. PSA cert numbers are verified against PSA's database before the card can even list.
Real people, real audit trail.
Disputes are reviewed by Rookie support with a full shipment-evidence timeline. Every transaction has an escrow audit log, tracking uploads, and clear status updates so both sides know exactly where things stand.
Store it. Verify it. Grade it.
Send your cards to Rookie once. We store them for free, mark the good ones Vault-Verified, and can grade them ourselves or route them to PSA on your behalf. Every service is a single online form + a printable packing slip away.
Ship it. We hold it.
Send your cards to our Austin vault for free storage. No monthly fee, no per-card fee while it sits. You only pay $9.99 + insured shipping when you ask for a card back — and even that's free when a Vault-Verified card sells from the vault.
Send in cards →Vault-Verified badge.
We authenticate every card in hand, tamper-seal it, and mark it Vault-Verified across your listings, trade offers, and public profile. Storage stays free. A flat $4.99 vault fee only applies if the card sells — buyers pay a premium for provenance.
Get verified →We ship, PSA grades.
Skip the paperwork. Pick a tier, pay PSA's fee pass-through with no markup + a flat $4.99 Rookie service fee per card, and we handle intake, cover-sheet, insured shipping to PSA, and return. Fees are held in escrow and released to Rookie only when your grade report is delivered.
Submit to PSA →$9.99 flat + shipping. Cheaper than every AI grader.
Our own in-house grading service — sleeved, stored, and AI-graded for a flat $9.99/card plus insured return shipping. Includes vault storage until you sell or withdraw. Cheaper than PSA Value Bulk ($19), AGS Value Bulk ($15, 30-card minimum), and every other AI grader on the market. Same-week turnaround with a public grade report you can share.
Start AI Grade →Just shipped for collectors.
No-reserve auctions, verified slabs only.
Bid on PSA-verified cards from Rookie collectors. Real-time bids, anti-snipe extensions, escrow protection, and instant seller payout on close.
Explore marketplace →New · PSA Submission CenterShip graded, print-ready.
Pick cards from your vault, we auto-suggest the cheapest PSA tier that covers each card's value, then generate the packing cover sheet.
Read the workflow →New · PSA GuidesEvery tier, every fee, every step.
Two free guides breaking down PSA grading costs (2026 pricing) and the full step-by-step submission workflow — before you ship a single card.
Read the guides →Verified slabs. Real provenance.
Rookie is the only collector app that verifies, prices, insures, and preps your PSA-graded cards in one place — no manual entry, no fake-slab risk, no spreadsheet for your insurance agent.
Every slab, authenticated.
Add a graded card with just its cert# — we pull the data straight from PSA's database. A green PSA-verified badge then follows the card across your vault, listings, trade offers, and public profile.
Fake slabs blocked at the source.
Listings and trades involving graded cards are blocked unless the cert# verifies. Buyers and traders know what they're getting — and re-verification runs nightly to catch reused certs.
Print-ready cover sheet.
Pick the cards you want graded. We suggest the cheapest PSA service tier that covers each card's value, then generate a packing cover sheet you can ship with your package.
Proof of holdings, on demand.
One-click PDF report of every PSA-verified card in your vault — cert#, grade, pop data, current market value. Hand it to your insurer or estate planner. Emailed straight to you, too.
Sports cards. Pokémon. Every TCG.
Rookie ATX Card Vault is the Austin-built app for scanning cards, prepping PSA grading submissions, and trading with collectors across Texas and beyond — sports and every major TCG under one roof.
PSA grading in Austin, Texas
Pick cards from your vault, we auto-suggest the cheapest PSA service tier that actually covers each card's value, then generate a print-ready packing cover sheet. Ship from anywhere in Austin — Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Pflugerville — and we track the submission all the way back.
Scan sports cards & Pokémon cards in seconds
Snap a photo of any raw or slabbed card and Rookie ID's the set, parallel, and print run, then prices it against live eBay sold + active comps, PriceCharting, COMC, and our own sale history. Works for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, and One Piece.
Trading cards Austin collectors actually trust
Every graded card is verified by cert# straight from PSA. Fake slabs are blocked at listing time. Trade or sell to DNA-matched collectors across Austin, ATX, and the rest of the country — with escrow protection on every deal.
Built for every collector — not just sports
Whether you're chasing Bowman Chrome 1st autos, Pokémon Base Set, Charizards, Moonbreon, Magic reserved-list staples, Yu-Gi-Oh! Ghost Rares, Lorcana enchanteds, or One Piece manga rares — Rookie identifies, prices, and vaults it. One app for every trading card collector.
Vault. Value. Trade.
Snap any trading card — sports (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer) or TCG (Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, One Piece) — and our AI identifies it, prices it, and drops it into your digital vault. Keep it in your PC or list it on the member marketplace to sell or trade with other collectors.
2023 Corbin Carroll RC
Topps Chrome /99
$142.50
+12%
2024 Anthony Edwards
Prizm Silver
$88.00
-2%
1989 Ken Griffey Jr. RC
Upper Deck
$420.00
+8%
Total Portfolio
$1,284.40
+24.8% all-time
Back
JC7 Foundation
Every box gives back to the JC7 Foundation, supporting youth athletics and the causes close to our family.
Latest Pack OpeningSee what's inside this month's vault.
Connor and Logan are on camera every week showing exactly what they're sourcing for subscribers. Vintage finds, the newest releases — you see it all before it ships.
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